What is the crime rate in Delta, CO?

In 2025, the Delta Police Department reported 14 violent crimes and 246 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 142 violent and 2,497 property crimes per 100,000 of the 9,851 residents it serves.

Across Colorado the rates were 440 and 2,235.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Violent per 100,000: 142
Property per 100,000: 2,497
Violent crimes: 14
Property crimes: 246

Crime reported by the Delta Police Department, 2023 to 2025

Offenses known to law enforcement, reported to the FBI; rates per 100,000 residents of the area the department serves
Year	Violent crimes	Violent per 100,000	Property crimes	Property per 100,000	Residents served
2023	21	217	366	3,785	9,671
2024	18	184	322	3,291	9,785
2025	14	142	246	2,497	9,851

Violent crimes reported went from 21 in 2023 to 14 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 366 in 2023 to 246 in 2025.

In a small town a handful of incidents moves these numbers a long way, so one year’s change says little on its own.

Delta against Colorado and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Delta	142	2,497
Delta County	80	1,158
Colorado	440	2,235
United States	330	1,552

These are rates per resident; they are not adjusted for visitors, commuters or the size of the area, which raise or lower a town’s figures without changing anybody’s risk.

Crime reported in places near Delta, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Delta	—	142	2,497
Olathe	12 mi	204	408
Cedaredge	13 mi	81	810
Montrose	23 mi	182	1,857
Paonia	28 mi	0	682
Palisade	28 mi	38	843
Grand Junction	34 mi	536	2,394
Fruita	44 mi	14	898
Ridgway	45 mi	0	0

Neighboring departments count the same offenses the same way, but their areas, populations and visitors differ, so a difference between two towns is a starting point for a question, not an answer.

How to read these numbers

These are offenses known to the police and reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: crimes nobody reported, or that a department did not record, are not in them.

Violent crime is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.

A department reports the crimes in the area it polices, which can differ from the town’s boundaries, and the FBI estimates the population it serves.

The FBI asks that these figures not be used to rank places or to judge how safe a neighborhood is: crime depends on many local factors, and the counts describe a whole town, not any street or home.

A year is shown only when the department reported all twelve months.

FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting statistics and their proper use

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